'exec' creates popup windows I don't want to see

[Tony]

Wise ones,

I'm running php under apache (I'm using the uniserv distribution) on
Windows XP. Every time I execute an external command using backticks
or exec or system, I get a cmd windows that pops up for the 1/4 second
the command executes.

This would all be fine, except that I'm deploying the server to run
locally on the user's box, and needless to say, the popups are
annoying. I've search everything I'm clever enough to understand and
can't find a way to get the external commands to run in the
'background'. All of the input and output of the commands have been
redirected, any shell command causes this behavious, and in all other
respects it all seems to work great.

Any ideas?

Thank you very very much for the time.

Tony

[Leslie Hoare]

"Tony" <aglamarca@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Wise ones,
>
> I'm running php under apache (I'm using the uniserv distribution) on
> Windows XP. Every time I execute an external command using backticks
> or exec or system, I get a cmd windows that pops up for the 1/4 second
> the command executes.
>
> This would all be fine, except that I'm deploying the server to run
> locally on the user's box, and needless to say, the popups are
> annoying. I've search everything I'm clever enough to understand and
> can't find a way to get the external commands to run in the
> 'background'. All of the input and output of the commands have been
> redirected, any shell command causes this behavious, and in all other
> respects it all seems to work great.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thank you very very much for the time.
>
> Tony

system() works fine for me